Solar leads at 12.8 GW but heavy net imports of 23.3 GW needed as wind stays weak and evening demand peaks.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 46%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 14%
76%
Renewable share
2.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.8 GW
Solar
27.7 GW
Total generation
-23.2 GW
Net import
113.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 171.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
172
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 12.8 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green spring farmland; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a cluster of medium-scale wood-chip power stations with gently smoking chimneys in the centre-left; brown coal 3.8 GW occupies the left as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes; wind onshore 2.3 GW is rendered as a small row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning; natural gas 1.9 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer near the centre; hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete dam with modest spillway at the far left edge; hard coal 0.9 GW is a single dark brick power station with a slender chimney releasing thin grey smoke beside the brown coal towers; wind offshore 0.5 GW appears as tiny turbines on the far horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast with a thick, oppressive blanket of grey cloud pressing down, yet the lower western horizon glows with a deep amber-orange band of dusk light at 18:00 in late April — the sun has not yet set but is hidden, casting a warm but diffuse orange wash across the undersides of clouds. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly. Spring vegetation is fresh bright green, trees in early leaf, wildflowers in meadow margins, temperature mild at 14.6°C. High-voltage transmission pylons march across the middle distance, cables visually taut and prominent, symbolising the massive import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth with layered cloud perspective — rendered with meticulous technical accuracy for every energy installation: correct turbine nacelle shapes, three-blade rotors on lattice towers, PV panel wiring and racking, cooling tower parabolic geometry with condensation plumes. No text, no labels.